Viz Media Announces Digital Manga Library for Kobo.com

Time to grab your Ereaders and slide the pages to the right Kobo.com is getting 500 Volumes of Manga.

San Francisco, CA, July 16, 2013 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest publisher, distributor and licensor of manga and anime in North America, brings its massive digital manga (graphic novel) library to Kobo, a global leader in eReading. Starting today, Readers across Canada and the United States can access Viz Media’s manga titles at Kobo’s eBookstore and enjoy a seamless eReading experience with the company’s E Ink eReaders, the award-winning Kobo Arc Android tablet, and top-ranking free apps for iOS, BB10 smartphones and Android devices.

The Kobo eBookstore offers VIZ Media’s most popular titles including over 500 volumes across 60 different series made available at launch, quickly expanding to the full digital manga catalog of over 1,500 volumes and 130 series. The launch list includes the latest volumes of blockbusters like NARUTO (rated ‘T’ for Teens), BLEACH (rated ‘T’ for Teens), BLUE EXORICIST (rated ‘T+’ for Older Teens), ONE PIECE (rated ‘T’ for Teens) and VAMPIRE KNIGHT (rated ‘T+’ for Older Teens). VIZ Media has also synchronized its digital publishing schedule for future manga titles to have near-simultaneous domestic release of their print counterparts, closing the gap between print and digital manga formats. The complete library of VIZ Media manga titles is available at www.kobo.com/viz.

This isn't too shabby Viz. A lot of the big Manga titles are here - One Piece, Naruto, Blue Exorcist, Rurouni Kenshin, and Black Cat. Lots of great reads, They also have Bleach.. I await your hate mail

About the only things that I think are lacking from the lunch line up are Yu Yu Hakusho and Monster. Hopefully we'll be seeing more in the near future.